Improvement in tobacco-presses



' E. HERBERT,

TOBACCO PRESS.

No.176,135. Patented Apr'11l8, 1876.

N-PEIERS. PNOTOMTHOGRAPMER, WASHINGTON, D C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD HERBERT, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN TOBACCO-PRESSES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 176,135, dated April 18, 1876 application filed February 19, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, EDWARD HERBERT,

of the city of Baltimore, State of Maryland,

have invented a new and useful Improvement in Tobacco-Presses for leaf tobacco, which improve'ment is fully set forth in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

The object of theinvention is to retain in the hogshead, or other package into whichthe screw of the press drives it, each successive charge of tobacco, and hold it there under pressure until another similar charge or quantity shall have been pressed upon it, and so on until the package shall have been filled.

The device is illustrated in elevation in Fig. 1, in which A represents a t'obacco-hogshead to be filled. Fig. 3 represents a head-block with its center raised to meet and support the head of the hogshead inside the chine.

A section (vertical) of this block is shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 3 is top surface view of said head-block, showing eyebolts a a a, the said eyebolts being partially shown. in Fig. 1, and in Figs. 2 and 3. A chain, Fig. 5, extends from each eyebolt, and to each chain is attachable a hook, c, on one end of a rod,-

Fig. 4:, having a pointed pin, d, at the opposite end of said rod.

The operation of my improved tobacco-press is thus As certain kinds of leaf tobacco is compressed it returns with the follower as the screw is being withdrawn. The insertion of the pin d, Fig. 4, through the stave between the follower and the tobacco, prior to the withdrawal of the screw, prevents this recession,

EDWARD HERBERT.

Witnesses:

- WM. H. RoBER'rs, R. H. SEWELL. 

